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British NCOs served as flight engineers served with 206 and 216 Sqdns, RAF in GB, Falklands War, Gulf War and Balkans War, 1982-1996
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REEL 1 Recollections of period as flight engineers with 206 and 216 Sqdns, RAF in GB, during Falklands War, Gulf War and Balkans War, 1982-1996: [Yorston]: enlistment and service with Royal Air Force, 1968-1977; volunteering for aircrew, 1978; posting to 206 Sqdn, 1986 [Flint]: enlistment and service with Royal Air Force, 1977-1989; posting to 206 Sqdn, RAF. [Yorston]: duties with 206 Sqdn, RAF during Falklands War, 1982; endurance of flights and conditions on board during in British Aerospace Nimrod MR2; accommodation on Ascension Island; reaction of crews to operating [Flint]: test flight in GB during Falklands War [Yorston]: missile threat [Flint]: patrolling from RAF Kinloss; shadowing high-level Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 'Bear' aircraft; submarines detection; shadowing Soviet vessels and submarines; use of magnetic anomaly techniques; use of sonar buoys [Yorston]: incident of detecting Soviet submarine on surface; presence of Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet in Mediterranean; amusing search and rescue mission aided by American container ship.
REEL 2 Continues: nature of most search operations [Flint]: attempts to reach pilotless BAe Harrier aircraft; training on Lockheed TriStar aircraft with 216 Sqdn, RAF, 1984; role as Lockeed TriStar in supplying Falkland Islands; flights to Cyprus [Yorston]: refuelling capablity of Lockheed TriStar [Flint]: characteristics of Lockheed TriStar; arrangements for refuelling aircraft from Lockhed TriStar [Yorston]: limitations on operating aircraft [Flint]: operations during Gulf War, 1991; adapting aircraft for duties in Gulf War; first refuelling mission; degree of threat from Iraqi Air Force; working pattern.
REEL 3 Continues: [Yorston]: arrival in Gulf, 1/1991; duties refuelling combat air patrols; refuelling areas; threat of collision during night-time refuelling; lack of parachutes; pink camouflage used on aircraft; lack of problems in obtaining fuel [Flint]: threat of Scud Missiles; disappearance of ground crew during Scud Missile attack; involvement in search and rescue mission; returning material back to GB after end of conflict; refuelling operations over Adriatic Sea during Balkans War, 1993-1996 [Yorston]: refuelling aircraft during North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) airstrikes on Bosnia and Herzegovina; refuelling for exercise in Canada.